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Book 100 Years at Hull House

Download or read book 100 Years at Hull House written by Mary Lynn McCree Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the history of Hull House and how it confronted poverty, poor housing, disease, discouragement, and other ills in the industrial city. Attempts to show how the settlement and the neighborhood changed in the twentieth century and records the conflicts and controversies, failures and successes.

Book 100 Years at Hull House

Download or read book 100 Years at Hull House written by Mary Lynn McCree Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the history of Hull House and how it confronted poverty, poor housing, disease, discouragement, and other ills in the industrial city. Attempts to show how the settlement and the neighborhood changed in the twentieth century and records the conflicts and controversies, failures and successes.

Book Twenty Years at Hull House

Download or read book Twenty Years at Hull House written by Jane Addams and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jane Addams' autobiographical account of her career as a social reformer, entertainingly informal and anecdotal in its style, sets forth the great and fruitful ideal embodied in her work at Hull-House, the now legendary Chicago settlement house she founded in 1889. In the beginning chapters of the book, Miss Addams tells of her early life, her education, and her decision to take up social work. She then describes the founding of Hull-House and the varied social and educational activities which the organization pioneered and developed. Ensuing chapters reveal Miss Addams' active interest in strikes, labor legislation, and problems of immigration and describe her work as a member of the Board of Education. One particularly stimulating chapter relates her visit with the Russian novelist Tolstoy and her criticism, sympathetic yet discriminating, of his thoroughgoing solution to the labor problem. The book closes with a general exposition of the educational value of a settlement in the socialization of democracy. Twenty Years at Hull-House, originally published by The MacMillan Company in 1910, through the years has become a classic in education and social work, an established literary monument to America's pioneering efforts in social reform. This new edition contains the complete, unabridged text of Miss Addams' great work."--Jacket

Book Twenty Years at Hull House

Download or read book Twenty Years at Hull House written by Jane Addams and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 1911 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1889, while many Americans were disdainful of newly arrived immigrants, Jane Addams established Hull-House as a refuge for Chicago's poor. The settlement house provided an unprecedented variety of social services. In this inspiring autobiography, Addams chronicles the institution's early years and discusses the ever-relevant philosophy of social justice that served as its foundation.

Book Jane Addams  Spirit in Action

Download or read book Jane Addams Spirit in Action written by Louise W. Knight and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-09-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark biography, Jane Addams becomes America's most admired and most hated woman—and wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a leading statesperson in an era when few imagined such possibilities for women. In this fresh interpretation, the first full biography of Addams in nearly forty years, Louise W. Knight shows Addams's boldness, creativity, and tenacity as she sought ways to put the ideals of democracy into action. Starting in Chicago as a co-founder of the nation's first settlement house, Hull House—a community center where people of all classes and ethnicities could gather—Addams became a grassroots organizer and a partner of trade unionists, women, immigrants, and African Americans seeking social justice. In time she emerged as a progressive political force; an advocate for women's suffrage; an advisor to presidents; a co-founder of civil rights organizations, including the NAACP; and a leader for international peace. Written as a fast-paced narrative, Jane Addams traces how one woman worked with others to make a difference in the world.

Book Hull House

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peggy Glowacki
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780738533513
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Hull House written by Peggy Glowacki and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a pictorial history of the famous settlement house founded in 1889 which offered a variety of community services, social activities, and educational opportunities to nourish the spirits and address the material needs of its working class neighborson the Near West Side of Chicago.

Book Jane Addams

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  • Author : Judith Bloom Fradin
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780618504367
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Jane Addams written by Judith Bloom Fradin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the life of the "pacifist" Jane Addams.

Book The Women of Hull House

Download or read book The Women of Hull House written by Eleanor J. Stebner and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This group biography explores the lives, work, and personal relations of nine white, middle- and upper-middle-class women who were involved in the first decade of Chicago's premier social settlement. This "galaxy of stars"--as they were called in their own day--were active in innumerable political, social, and religious reform efforts. The Women of Hull House refutes the humanistic interpretation of the social settlement movement. Its spiritual base is highlighted as the author describes it as the practical/ethical side of the social gospel movement and as an attempt to transform late nineteenth-century evangelical and doctrinal Christian religion. While the women of Hull House differed from one another in their theological beliefs and were often critical of orthodox Christianity, they were motivated by Christian ideals. By showing the interconnections of spirituality, vocation, and friendship, the author argues that individual actions for social changes must take place within communities which provide a level of uniting vision yet allow for diverse actions and viewpoints.

Book The House That Jane Built

Download or read book The House That Jane Built written by Tanya Lee Stone and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Jane Addams, the woman who dedicated her life to improving society.

Book Death at Hull House

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  • Author : Frances McNamara
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-02-07
  • ISBN : 9781956978049
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Death at Hull House written by Frances McNamara and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Chicago in 1893 and Emily Cabot, an aspiring sociologist, finds work at Hull House, the famous settlement established by Jane Addams. There she quickly becomes involved in the political and social problems of the immigrant community. But when a man who works for a sweatshop owner is murdered in the Hull House parlor, Emily must determine whether one of her colleagues is responsible, or whether the real reason for the murder is revenge for a past tragedy in her own family. As a smallpox epidemic spreads through the impoverished West Side of Chicago, the very existence of the settlement is threatened and Emily finds herself in jeopardy from both the deadly disease and a killer. This is the exciting sequel to Death at the Fair. Reissue of Allium Press edition.

Book The Essence of Jane Addams s Twenty Years at Hull House

Download or read book The Essence of Jane Addams s Twenty Years at Hull House written by Hunter Lewis and published by Hunter Lewis Foundation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Axios's Essence of...Series takes the greatest works of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence. Selected passages flow together to create a seamless work that will capture your interest from page one. Jane Addams was arguably the most influential woman in American history. Her mission as a public intellectual, social activist and reformer shines forth brightly in her inspiring and easy-to-read autobiography. In her time, she was as famous as a president.

Book Pots of Promise

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  • Author : Cheryl Ganz
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780252071973
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book Pots of Promise written by Cheryl Ganz and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the untold stories of Hull-House arts programs in the 1920s and 1930s and the pottery program at the commercial Hull-House Kilns, Pots of Promise also addresses the story of Mexicans in Chicago and the history of Hull-House in the years when Jane Addams increasingly turned her attention beyond the settlement house she had co-founded. This book is the first on the Hull-House Kilns; it examines Mexicans in the Hull-House colonia, Chicago's largest Mexican settlement. Pots of Promise includes 131 color and black-and-white photographs, many of them previously unpublished, and four essays: "Bringing Art to Life: The Practice of Art at Hull-House" by Peggy Glowacki; "Incorporating Reform and Religion: Mexican Immigrants, Hull-House, and the Church" by David A. Badillo; "Shaping Clay, Shaping Lives: The Hull-House Kilns" by Cheryl R. Ganz; and "Forging a Mexican National Identity in Chicago: Mexican Migrants and Hull-House" by Rick A. L pez.

Book The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets

Download or read book The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets written by Jane Addams and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lines of Activity

Download or read book Lines of Activity written by Shannon Jackson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applies the interdisciplinary insights of performance studies to the life of Chicago's Hull-House settlement

Book Pluralism and Progressives

Download or read book Pluralism and Progressives written by Rivka Shpak Lissak and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-11-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The settlement house movement, launched at the end of the nineteenth century by men and women of the upper middle class, began as an attempt to understand and improve the social conditions of the working class. It gradually came to focus on the "new immigrants"—mainly Italians, Slavs, Greeks, and Jews—who figured so prominently in this changing working class. Hull House, one of the first and best-known settlement houses in the United States, was founded in September 1889 on Chicago's West Side by Jane Addams and Ellen G. Starr. In a major new study of this famous institution and its place in the movement, Rivka Shpak Lissak reassesses the impact of Hull House on the nationwide debate over the place of immigrants in American society.

Book The Chicago Sports Reader

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  • Author : Steven A. Riess
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 025207615X
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The Chicago Sports Reader written by Steven A. Riess and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history

Book Twenty Years at Hull House

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  • Author : Victoria Bissell Brown
  • Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
  • Release : 2017-12-07
  • ISBN : 131910472X
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Twenty Years at Hull House written by Victoria Bissell Brown and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of?Twenty Years at Hull-House highlights the importance of Jane Addams as an early leader of the Progressive movement. Addams's narrative of life in an immigrant urban neighborhood provides students with an entry into the ideology of the Progressive era and the tenets of social activism.? The revised, more concise, introduction provides a brief biographical sketch of Addams, outlines the convictions and decisions that led her to found Hull-House, highlights the political philosophy that guided her reform efforts, and traces Addams's defense of her efforts to protect immigrants and those on the political margins from indiscriminate police prosecution. New related documents incorporate a diverse range of voices, including the memoir of an immigrant from Belarus who frequented Hull-House, an editorial by an Italian-American that felt out of place in America, and a letter from an African-American lawyer committed to fighting oppression. Readers of the revised edition will also find an updated bibliography and new questions for consideration.